#native proud

[marcelinesghost13]

[ace-hell]

Native jewish miku 2.0

i really liked the trend so i wanted to try more dress ideas with more embroidery ideas i had. In this one i have a small explanation on the patterns on her dress

Don't mind the different style i am still finding myself i don't have oen consistent artstyle😭

The explanation about the clothes can be seen in my previous miku art and ofc it can't be jewish if there isn't some hebrew.

On the dress i wrote : am israel hai which means "the israel nation lives" (aka jews)

On the background i wrote: shiviti hashem lenegdi tamid which means "I have set G-d before me always"

Here is the background+the patterns on her dress:

Here is a small charts of what is each one:

Side note on "road to canaan": it was a concept a friend of mine had and i gave it life. The swirls represent the israelites walking in the dessert for 40 years and 'getting lost' and the flower is the "star of canaan" or what later became the "flower/star of bethlehem" that was spread worldwide to the world by the crusades and is a big part of the embroidery in a lot of places such as the arab palestinians (mainly), ukranians and more

[urban-swan]

“I, am Jerusalem.”

-King Baldwin IV, Kingdom of Heaven.

(Please click for better quality ✊😔)

[rottenzombrainz]

Average Romeo Interaction

in honor of Romeo Gucci Coochie's birthday

MC: Romeo? You said you needed me for a favor?

Romeo: OMG you're finally here you BB! NGL I was OMW to sending one of my EITS to come get you!

MC: Sorry...

Romeo: Stop apologizing and start being competent, you BB! Also, WTF are you wearing? Go change. I'm tired of looking at your BB face.

MC: I'm just wearing the Darkwick uniform-

Romeo: It looks ugly on you!! Go change! ASAP!!! In fact, just go KYS!!!

[nekrosmos]

Summary: Zombies have been used in terrorist attacks for the past year. The 141 was on the front line of it when Lieutenant Simon "Ghost" Riley was KIA and left behind. Now, seven months later, Sergeant John "Soap" MacTavish is sent to clear out a tunnel infested with zombies, unaware that he will be facing the nightmarish vision of his past lover.

I wrote a little Alone x Soap angsty fic and I'm not gonna lie, I'm super proud of this one. It's short, SFW and has some hurt/comfort !

Please go check it out !

[cepetriwrites]

You ever read a fic written by someone where English is not their first language so there’s grammatical errors a native speaker would know not to make and you like the story! It’s a great premise! but you also just want to just real quick edit the grammar so that your brain can stop twitching?

[kosherkirby]

This is just a random post but to everyone you got one life. If you are safe enough to, then please embrace your queerness. Of course you will probably lose friends and family; but if you need one I’ll be here. God told us to be righteous to pursue justice and peace always and one of the most righteous things you can do in my eyes is embrace yourself.

(Ps: To fellow Jews or Natives, your queerness doesn’t take away from your culture. No, it can actually add to it. See there has been many ancestors like you in the past; and they blended the beauty of their identity with their upbringing. Don’t let others try to say otherwise. Put your chin up and say “I’m proud of who I am”)

[pettytiredandjewish]

I don’t really talk much about this but as someone who is also indigenous and has been reconnecting with that side (because my culture and traditions was literally ripped away from my family) it’s kinda hard and sad to see the artist that I loved listening to and educators who are bringing back the culture and traditions that was taken away from us turn a whole 360 and be raging antisemitics. I’ve had to unfollow so many of them because they were spitting out Jew hating and pro hamas shit. It’s just sad ya know. I love being indigenous and jewish- no one will ever take that away from me again. But it’s hard when you see so many in the community fall for pro Hamas propaganda and start blaming the Jews for everything. Sorry about this- I just needed to vent. By chance does anyone know any indigenous artists (singers/drum groups) that aren’t antisemitic?

[aerithisms]

rotating the pub scene from 73 yards in my mind i think there is so much being said there about wales and welsh/english tension that is so interesting and is going so under discussed

[mamath]

Comicstreet is returning to Brisbane for 2024! Yay! Mark off July 6th on your calendar and come on down to the Queen Street Mall for indie comics and art!!

btw if you're a Brisbanite making a comic yourself, you can apply for an artist table at Comicstreet! Applications close 29th of April - just 4 days away at time of posting this. Don't miss out! All the info you need to apply is on our website:

🦖 comicstreet.com.au 🦖

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Some people may not know but Comicstreet is somewhat my (mamath's) baby, so I end up doing 90%+ of the work for it. That includes this years key art, which is a funny dino in honour of Akira Toriyama, who drew the best silly fantasy dinosaurs. 🦖

Sooo many good applicants for tables this year but I'm hoping we get more so I can open up a new section island of tables. :D Expand comicstreet!!!!

[marcelinesghost13]

[ambersgiantpanda]

Eddie, after failing yet another English test: Damn, English language is so hard! Fabian: It can be understood through tough thorough thought, though! Eddie: You really need to stop.

[dykedvonte]

The Khans - My Introspective

I don't like the Military and I don't support a lot of the actions the NCR does to the Mojave in New Vegas but in terms of the Khans I feel like the fandom infantilizes or diminishes the fact that they are or at least one of the most violent raider groups in the Mojave.

What happened at Bitter Springs was a tragedy, innocent lives were lost and the fact that the NCR swept it under the rug and continued to hunt down Khans that are truly trying to back down and resettle is horrendous, but there is a history to the NCR's aggression towards them.

The Khans first appear in Fallout 1, the main faction of raiders in the game besides the mentioned Vipers (who don't actually appear if I remember correctly). They came from Vault 15 along with the members that would form rival groups; The Vipers, The Jackals, and Shady Sands. They are a very large and foreboding raiding party, known for burning towns and encampments they attack and taking survivors as their slaves or slaves to sell. They are a big reason why the Jackals and Vipers are actually so small in New Vegas, they wiped them out.

Their main targets where Shady Sands and Junker town, the former of the two would be what became The New California Republic. This explains a big part of their animosity towards the Khans, only furthered by the fact the Khans kidnapped Tandi as a young girl, the girl that would go to offically found the NCR out of Shady Sands. When the dweller saved her and killed much of the Khans, this allowed the NCR to develop into what it currently is as they no longer needed to focus on fighting off constant raids.

When the Khans became the New Khans in Fallout 2, they barely resembled the Khans as they were led by Darion, Garl Death-Hand's son (former leader of the Khans). They were smaller and refortified vault 15, still planning to take down the NCR (at this time nowhere near as imperialist as they are in FNV) as mostly a revenge/power ploy. They manipulate The Squat, a group of y'know squatters, that lived in the upper levels, promising and lying about repairing the vault and offering them ransacked caravan resources if they kept the NCR away. Being their only life line The Squat had no choice. Still the chosen one got rid of them and they left New California for the untapped Mojave.

The Great Khans, the most current iteration, continued in the path as the original Khans, regrouping and gaining information from the Followers who hoped they'd use their new medical knowledge to heal themselves. They gained more members and a substantial part of Vegas territory before they were run out by the three families. They were pushed to Bitter Springs where they first and foremost continued to pick off and attack NCR settlements, most of which consisted of caravans, towns, and camps as they saw them as easy like in their old days. It was the killing of four influential Republic members (non-military) that brought on Bitter Springs.

Bitter Springs was the result of years of hatred and animosity and likely the goal to send a final message to the Khans. It does not excuse the fact that innocent men, women, and children were slaughtered with few survivors. It does not excuse the fact that the NCR has yet to make amends for this and continues to try and persecute the Khans even in moments of surrender.

This post is not to defend what happened but to give a quick rundown of the Khan's history and their history with the NCR. It's to remind people that the NCR is not just their military power but an actual group/settlement of people that were also attacked indiscriminately by the Khans. It's to point out that the Khans were not a band of indigenous people (no matter the comparisons) driven from their homes but raiders who fed into the brutal cultures of the west coast wasteland and were in turn treated to the same things.

My frustration comes from the fact that FNV has so many comparisons to indigenous struggles but the groups it chooses are not comparable at all. Their oppression hinges on not being familiar with their past, which explains why they have the reputation they do in canon. The "tribes" are often not even groups of minorities or have goals/desires out of acquisitions of power and I feel like it is important to both acknowledge that this is bad indigenous rep because it is not supposed to be. It is supposed to be a comparison of the in-game groups and how they all do the same things and justify it in their own fucked up ways, some better at it than others.

FNV of all the Fallout games (in light of it being heavily Western based) distastefully uses indigenous imagery and theming for groups that are sad mimicries of American indigenous cultures at best and outright offensive at worst.

[candicoated]

The thing about British people is that y'all suck at taking jokes sometimes. Bragging about your people being responsible for centuries of essentially oppression, genocide, displacement and slavery over a fish and chips joke is so unhinged. Glad Hetalia TikTok is having a normal one. Also, 'we' is sending me you didn't do anything. Why are you proud of that?

"Haha, beans on toast tastes so bad."

"My ancestors are responsible for oppressing and enslaving your ancestors. We have stolen from every part of the world and profited off it. "

[mirwx]

so this blog has been mostly rain world but take this random thing I drew for a competition because it won a prize

and i also haven't existed in eternity. still failing blender.

[waterdeepthroat]

vox machinae in bg3 (+ photoshopped glasses on percy because glassesless percy is utterly terrifying)

next up, the mighty nein!